HELP !!! WD Caviar GP WD5000AACS 500 GB 3.5

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The drive suddenly stopped showing up, or would freeze my computer, i guess itd go to sleep mode, or itd would just stop spinning, i took it out of the enclosure hoping it was an issue with the enclosure but it actually wasnt, the last few days ive been plugging it to the computer and it starts spinning fine and , im able to browse thru the data all good but then it just crashes it just stops and disappears , and once that i try to plug it again it does not start spinning again, until i wait a few hours.

Any suggestions !! what u think it can be ?

Reply to alialbertico

try running HDTune for diagnostics.

Reply to Plumble

well now it started making a weird noise, not clicking, or clacking rather an actual "sound". what could this be ?

Reply to alialbertico

Most likely, your drive is about to die. Stop using the drive immediately and back up all your data to some safe location as soon as possible.

------------------------------ Elena of www.ReclaiMe.com
Reply to ElenaP

Did you run diagnostics?

Reply to Plumble

Well the disk doesnt even mount, and that soft doesnt even recognize my other external hard drive, only the mac book pro, macintosh hd hard drive.grhhhh this is just so frustrating

Reply to alialbertico

Could try putting it back into the enclosure. From description, sounds like busted.

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